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| right: "the times of day, morning" Philip Otto Runge, 1809, "for a chapel [for] the new religion of nature" represented by "Aurora, the emerging dawn." —H. Armstrong, from "Fundamentals of Symbolism," Part II |
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| Easter — from Anglo- Saxon fertility goddess "Eostre." Her month is April. May be related to Proto-Indo- European goddess of dawn |
forgive yourself Easter is a good time to remember to forgive yourself. Some of us were taught that Jesus took our sins upon himself on the cross. If you're not clear on the concept, consider THIS part of the Easter message: We're not just new, clean, and innocent one spring Sunday each year. Easter is a state of mind. Every day, at the Annagrammatica staff assembly, we pray these words from Psalm 51: Create in me a clean heart, O God. And then we accept it and say, "Thank you." |
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hugging spread joy, not germs Hugs can be healing; they're often comforting. But some people aren't huggers. Sad, but that's how it is. You can pretty much tell when you start to hug people whether they're huggers or not. If they grimace, or back away... or if they get all stiff and awkward during a hug... they're probably uncomfortable with the physical closeness. Or, and this might be sensible, they don't want to hug during flu season. Don't take it personally. Touch their shoulder, take their hand... but be alert to the signal "You're bugging me." We at Annagrammatica are big on hugs. We especially like to hug the widows and widowers at church, especially those who don't have children living nearby. Hug early and often. Don't hug when you're sick! Really! How disgusting is THAT? |
| obsessive guilt One of our Annagrammatica helpers is a dear woman whose children have long been grown and gone and who, nevertheless, is still beating herself up for her imagined shortcomings as a parent... failings on her part that, she says, caused tragedies in all her children's lives. There is an underlying selfishness in this type of attitude, but, apart from that, everything I've heard about her from her children confirms my belief that she was an excellent parent. Most parents do the very best they know how to do at the time. We don't know any perfect parents. We don't think we'd recognize them if we saw them. |
| counseling & support groups can help--a LOT Guilt is good for righting wrongs. It's a bummer of a lifetime companion. It can be very difficult for, say, the unlucky driver who was in the wrong place when a child ran out into the street — even if there were no way to avoid hitting the child — to deal with the feeling that he or she "caused" the child's injury or death. Support groups and counseling are very effective in such situations. JOY! NOT guilt (or anger, or depression) is our "default" state of mind. We at Annagrammatica hope and pray that your joy is great, at Eastertide and ALWAYS |
| easter — from Eostre, Germanic goddess of spring, April, dawn; cf. AURORA; Proto-Indo- Eur. goddess of the dawn |
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the riot of spring The Rite of Spring (Le sacre du printemps) is an early-20th-century ballet with music by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky, and set design and costumes by archaeologist and painter Nicholas Roerich, staged by impresario Serge Diaghilev. Even a hundred years later, Stravinsky’ s music sounds strange to ears accustomed to more conventional notions of beauty and structure. We here at Annagrammatica headquarters tune in to the other classical-music station when we hear Stravinsky. When the ballet premiered (Paris, 1913), it was considered so outré — not only the music but also the subject matter and the “violent” choreography “depicting fertility rites” — that rioting broke out in the audience, though the entire work is only about thirty-three minutes long. pagan theme The ballet — shockingly to mainstream audiences of the time — represented scenes from pagan Russian folklore. The concept arose from a discussion between Stravinsky and Nicholas Roerich in which Roerich shared his “fleeting vision of a pagan ritual in which a young girl dances herself to death.” Writes Stravinsky's, “There arose a picture of a sacred pagan ritual: the wise elders are seated in a circle and are observing the dance before death of the girl whom they are offering as a sacrifice to the god of Spring in order to gain his benevolence.” |
First Part: A Kiss of the Earth
Second Part: The Exalted Sacrifice
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| audience reactions The audience responded with “catcalls and whistles,” escalating to loud booing and even louder arguments among audience members who either loved or hated the work. Shouting, fistfights, and then all-out rioting ensued. Even the Paris police failed to restore order, and “chaos reigned for the remainder of the performance.” legacy Today, the Rite of Spring ballet is “a standard of dance troupes around the world” as well as of symphony orchestras, performing the work in a concert setting. —principal source: wikipedia |
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| #EA1 Little Flower in the Snow $2.25 ea. $20 pack of 10 |
| #EA2 Happy Easter, Happy Spring (a) $2.25 ea. $20 pack of 10 |
| #EA4 Life Triumphant (Mary) $2.25 ea. $20 pack of 10 |
| #EA5 Happy Easter, Happy Spring (b - eggs) $2.25 ea. $20 pack of 10 |
| #EA6 Easter Blessings $2.25 ea. $20 pack of 10 |
| #EA7 Wheel of the Year $2.25 ea. $20 pack of 10 |
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| #EA8 Signs of Spring $2.25 ea. $20 pack of 10 |
| #EA3 Hey Dad $2.25 ea. $20 pack of 10 |
| everything is new again, including you again guilt-b-gone! Guilt is an uncomfortable and therefore useful emotion in the short run. If you have wronged someone, guilt prompts you to make it right. Apologize, make restitution, do everything in your power to undo the damage. Then forget it. If, in spite of all, you're not forgiven, then the problem belongs to the person who refuses to forgive. Continue to act courteously and responsibly toward that person, but separate yourself from his or her vindictiveness. |
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